A surprisingly entertaining all-star weekend has come and gone and it’s time for NBA franchises to buckle down. The final stretch of the season is under way, and there is a lot going on. Teams […]
Area resident Jim Roberts has been on a crusade recently, working to honor a Surry County teacher who gave her life trying to protect one of her students. Sixty years ago, the Flat Rock School […]
RALEIGH — Thomas Jefferson had lots to say about lots of things. As the North Carolina General Assembly begins its 2017 session and new Gov. Roy Cooper begins his term, it’s worth considering what Jefferson […]
I have a confession: even though I work in the news industry, I don’t always keep up with news that happens far from me. I keep up with happenings in Mount Airy and Surry County. […]
The News & Record wrote a column about a woman who worked for decades as its queen of societal and cultural events. Martha Long’s long career reminds us of our own Eleanor Powell Hinds, who […]
As I write this, it is Tuesday afternoon. Election Day is winding down. The polls are dead — either because people did early voting or are waiting until they get off work. Like many Americans, […]
Charlotte became a hotbed of political fighting this year with the passing of HB 2, the bathroom law that has caused many groups to label North Carolina as small-minded and biased. However, the Queen City […]
Helping someone help themselves was one of the primary goals of the recent “Community Supervision Resource Fair” held at the Surry County Community Corrections Office on Jan. 28. It was great to see not only […]
Over the weekend, I was perusing Netflix’s new releases when I came across an interesting documentary into the death of Kurt Cobain. “Soaked in Bleach” is based primarily on a book called “Love & Death: […]
The Carolina Panthers are going to the Super Bowl. Football fans from all over the country are suddenly jumping on the Panther bandwagon. YouTube videos are popping up of elderly grandmas mimicking Cam Newton from […]
RALEIGH — The U.S. Census Bureau just confirmed what everyone already suspected: North Carolina now has more than 10 million residents. We’ve been adding an average of 281 people each day. That’s one of the […]
On Saturday I drove 266 miles up to Richmond, Virginia, to visit my daughter on Parents Weekend at VCU. Yes, I’d been to the campus twice before, but I hadn’t had a chance for a […]
The Carolina Panthers are now 5-0. The talking heads on ESPN and the NFL Network are suddenly jumping on the bandwagon so fast they might deflate the tires more than Tom Brady’s equipment manager. For […]
People who know me well generally can say three things about me. One, I like to cut up. If I can’t have a laugh and make others laugh, then it becomes a long, boring day. […]
A friend posed a question at a dinner: if you were president, what would you do to make a difference. My first reaction was, “Can we make a difference? Can anything really get done in […]
From The Fayetteville Observer/TNS It’s been more than four years and two state elections since the latest North Carolina voting districts were created. But they are still under a cloud of legal challenges that have […]
It was a cool spring day in 1969, and I was a very young child. We had just moved to the house that would be the family homeplace for the next four decades, and my […]
When I was growing up my mom used to buy me books where you colored a picture by the numbers. When you were finished, if you followed the numbers correctly, you would have a beautiful […]
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